Michael Novak - "The Experience of Nothingness" (February 3, 1980)

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Title:
Michael Novak - "The Experience of Nothingness" (February 3, 1980)
Description:

  • Sermon start time: 30:50. Sermon end time: 57:29.

  • heavy philosophical sermon on the answer to existential questions that may create a sense of emptiness in a person. Christianity teaches us to confront this experience through: 1) liberty: we are free to direct our consciousness 2) honesty: be honest with oursevles about the struggle 3) courage: what pushes you to be honest 4) community (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

  • Key quotation: "Christianity is not an attempt to cover over the experience of nothingness, to take away the nihilism, to cause us to forget it. Christianity is an attempt to encourage us to increase the frequency of those acts of honesty and of courage, of the exercise of our liberty, and of the joining of that community which has shared this experience"

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https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4df6kh85
Date:
February 3, 1980
Speaker:
Novak, Michael
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Contributor:
Duke University. Chapel
Identifier:
  • UA.17.01.0003 RR-1072
  • ref7356_vfl
  • uachapelsermaud
  • duke:320865
  • dcrau001951
  • ark:/87924/r4df6kh85
  • 87ccd594-8dc8-41dd-aedf-9caba462e93f
Digital Collection:
Duke Chapel Recordings
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Duke University Chapel recordings
Language:
English
Location:
  • United States
  • North Carolina
  • Durham (N.C.)
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The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.
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